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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I'll take that as meaning the right of others to live their lives to their own standards ... rather than the right of others to live life to your standard.
It's a noble ideal ... however, more often we see the breach rather than compliance. Let's face it ... we live in a country full of people who seem to be intent to impose their standards on much of the world ... on other people who might be quite content to live life by their own standards. Those folks doing the imposing like to call them "our" standards -- meaning the people of the United States, I suppose -- but most of what I see imposed has nothing to do with my standards.
I always get the jim-jams when someone refers to the United States as a "Christian nation." OK .... so when was the Bill of Rights repealed exactly?? I really should be kept abreast of this stuff (so I'll know when to start building a secret room I can hide in when they come for me).
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I meant "to your own standard" as you corrected. (Not offended, I'm not the most skilled talker/writer.)
I resist the imposition of other standards on me, and when I really spell it out in unmistakeable language, the person who does the imposition suddenly gets bent out of shape, denying that that's what they're doing, when it's blatantly obvious that
is what they're doing. They're upset that they got their hand caught in the cookie jar, so to speak...